The Tattooed Dragon 龍虎金剛 [dubbed & Subtitled] {DVDrip & VHSrip}

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The Tattooed Dragon Director: Lo Wei Year: 1973 Rating: 6.0 By 1973 both director Lo Wei and superstar Jimmy Wang Yu had moved away from the paternal embrace of the Shaw Brothers for other opportunities. By doing so they had also left behind the glossy Shaw look and their comparatively high budgets. This is fairly obvious in this very generic Golden Harvest kung fu production with little if any money spent on sets or costumes. It feels like light years from some of Wang Yu’s classic Shaw films such as The One-Armed Swordsman. Lo Wei by this time had been slotted into being a kung fu director – perhaps an awkward shift for him as his strength in the Shaw films had been fun sleek caper/spy films and costumed wuxia movies often starring Cheng Pei-pei. But his success with Bruce Lee and the sudden explosive popularity of kung fu films forced a number of directors to quickly take on this mantle. The low budget aspects of these films – putting actors into contemporary outdoor settings and letting them bash one another – also fit neatly into the cash strapped strategy of Golden Harvest in its start-up years. For all the criticism Lo Wei has received over the years, the one thing that can’…

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